New
Knees For Old Or, What I Did On My
Summer Travels!
By: Dr. William Wong ND, PhD

Recently,
(Summer 05), I traveled to India to do
a series of lectures teaching docs there
about Systemic Enzyme Therapy. In some
7 separate lectures we spoke to GP’s,
OBGYN’s, Orthopedists, General
and Plastic Surgeons, Diabeticians (yes,
there is such a word), ENT’s, Cardiologists
Homeopaths and Naturopaths. I was there
to teach but I was also there to learn.
The Indian people I met were very gracious,
very kind, very welcoming and very open
to the idea / concepts of what systemic
enzymes could add to their practice of
medicine!

Somewhere
in the skies over south west Asia on
the 9 hour “hop” from Amsterdam
to Bombay I caught a bug. It’s
almost impossible to shield yourself
from someone else's germs when you’re
riding on board an airliner. If the air
cocks on the plane were open I understand
that the air on board could be exchanged
every few minutes for new and germs could
be flooded out of the plane, but in the
interests of saving fuel the air cocks
are closed and the air is re-circulated
for as many hours as you are aloft. One
row back and across the isle from me
sat a European gentleman who coughed
and sneezed the entire way for 9 long
hours across Europe and the middle east
to India. I laced my drinks with Oxygen
drops in the hope I could avoid catching
whatever this fellow was releasing, I
prayed and drew in energy all the while
wishing I had a bank of Ultra Violet
Lights strung around my seat to kill
the germs this fellow was freely sharing
with the rest of us passengers!

By my
second day in India in the middle of
a series of 3 lectures I gave that day
I knew my actions had been in vane. Being
a chronic Bronchitis patient most of
my life and having had frequent bouts
of Pneumonia I know very well the signs
and symptoms, the feeling deep in my
lungs, of when I get a infection there
and bingo there it was settling into
my right lung. Shit! The show must go
on or as we said in the service “the
mission” must be completed at all
cost, I carried on lecturing, mingling
and question answering. By day 3, I was
wreck. On anti biotics now to keep the
bronchitis from becoming pneumonia I
was sliding lower and lower into the
pits of being sick. My hosts there were
anxious that I do some sight seeing and
touring and not just be chained to the
lecture hotel, (though by this time all
I wanted to do was to bury myself into
a room and just sleep and eat until my
next series of lectures the following
weekend). We traveled some toured the
marvelous plant where many of the enzymes
are cultured or extracted and met many
very wonderful people but at the end
of the plant tour I was done for.

Chronic
Fatigue / Fibro Myalgia (which I’ve
had since 1990) has a little recognized
component of brain swelling, (in recognition
of this the British rightfully call Chronic
Fatigue by the name Myalgic Encephalitis).
Most of the time since we came up with
the treatment protocols I wrote about
in my book “10 Natural Treatments
You haven’t Heard of Until Now” I
don’t remember I’ve ever
been a CFS/FMS patient, but the long
travel, fighting new bugs, change of
food and environment had gotten the best
of me and now my brain was swollen. I
was absolutely a wreck. Hurried back
to Bombay I was gingerly placed into
a great 5 star hotel, where I slept for
days, ate in the room and did not venture
out. One morning I got a call requesting
that I come to the Advanced Enzyme Technologies
business office in Thane a suburb of
Bombay. I reluctantly accepted. There
waiting for me was Yoga master who was
called a Naturopath by the president
of the firm. This gentleman looked me
over with an expert eye. As his English
was not extensive the doc spoke and others
translated, the doc told me which side
I mostly slept on, the injuries I’d
had to my joints where my viscera were
not functioning well, and how my Gi tract
was bloated (try mixing anti biotics
with new spicy food and see how your
Gi tract takes it)! He also told of what
restrictions I had in my movements.

As many
of you know from my writings and lectures
I’ve coined a term OJS for Old
Jock Syndrome. Twelve years of gymnastics
(by far the worst thing I ever did to
myself), 38 years of martial arts, as
many years of heavy lifting, years of
wind sprints, jogging, and more than
a few very hard parachute landing falls
have left their toll on my body. This
fellow found every "owie" and
some I did not remember I had. Moreover
the doc was actually an old fashioned
bone setter! For those of you familiar
only with Chiropractic, bone setting
is a health art practiced for thousands
of years in places and cultures as diverse
as Bohemia to Japan. In India it has
been a part of true Yoga (not the stuff
you see here in the West) for 5000 years.
The docs who practice the art apprentice
themselves to a Guru and study for decades,
learning the ability to do visual and
structural diagnosis and more over learning
how to correct what they see is wrong
not only by manipulating the bones and
joints but the internal organs as well.
What we would consider Chiropractic here
would be just an aspect of what the old
bone setters know about the body. The
doc went to work, not on the germs that
were trying to kill my lungs and brain
but on the “system” of my
body in the attempt to improve its functioning
and there by restore my health. I have
to say it was painful, sometimes in the
extreme. Such adjustment techniques could
not be practiced in the US, patients
would sue. The doc slowly adjusted my
GI tract first, then he went to work
on my spine, and lastly he went to work
on my extremities - the hips, knees ankles
and feet then the shoulders elbows, wrists
and fingers! Some of the techniques were
reminiscent of the scar tissue tearing
technique done on knee surgery and early
replacement patients only again for reasons
of lawsuits the knee patients are knocked
out before hand. I remember in the 70’s
when adhesions were torn at the knee
without anesthesia, the screams would
flood the orthopedists offices or hospital
wards and scare the heck out of the other
patients!

My shoulders
show the ravages of gymnastics and Gung
Fu. Twin torn rotator cuffs tears with
adhesions, etc. I used to be able to
shake my hands behind my back; arm and
shoulder locks were useless on me. Like
other gymnastics my shoulders would dislocate
putting groceries into the trunk of the
car or when my wife would hang her arm
on mine! When I got to India I could
still do chin ups with 70 pounds hanging
from my waist but could not put my palm
on the back of my neck! In a few painful
minutes of working the edges of his feet
full weight on both my shoulder girdles
the range of motion problem was solved!
I now get to touch my upper thoracic
vertebra with ease.

My poor
knees showed the ravages of "Turkeying-in" (doing
a turn too close to the ground) on a
PLF (parachute landing fall) during a
target accuracy jump in the mid 70’s
and dealing with torsion of uneven ground
during wind sprints in Arizona's 118
degree afternoons in the 90’s.
Again bi lateral torn ligaments, macerated
cartridges and the adhesions thereof
prevented my from easily (or painlessly)
ascending or descending stairs. I could
still do half squats with over 400 pounds
but you could hear my knees crack from
across the room. The systemic enzymes
gave me freedom from the perpetual inflammation,
and Bakers cysts they were subject to
before I started using enzymes, but the
knees definitely shown signs of not liking
me at all. These were the most painful
manipulations done by the Indian Naturopath.
Using leverage and fulcrums (a small
towel tightly wrapped in the hollow of
my knee) he administered his manipulations
and I both heard and felt tissue tear!
On top of everything else I was going
through that was enough pain to bring
tears to my eyes. My knees felt powerless
for a few seconds as joints do after
trauma. He then asked me to stand and
as I arose from my prone position on
the floor I noticed the knee movement
was freer, stronger, with out crepitus
(creaking and noise) was completely pain
free! Holy cow (in India that term actually
means something)! I was aghast! Being
in the field I’ve been in and knowing
the folks I know, I’ve been worked
on by some of the best Chiropractors
and body workers in the world and no
one had been able to do for me what this
unknown humble Yogi had been able to
do! A couple of days later as I was rushing
to get to one of my lectures I found
myself naturally taking the marble stairs
up to the hall two at a time! I had not
done that in over a decade! At home I
was considering building a ranch style
house in the future to keep from having
to climb the stairs. Now the staircase
to the bedroom is no trick at all!!!

Everything
began to settle down after the Yogi /
Bone Setter / Naturopath worked on me.
The brain swelling went away entirely,
I got better enough to finish the series
of lectures the following weekend and
head for home. Then came the ordeal of
the 30 hours of flying to get home and
the continuing health consequences of
that are for another story. But to get
to the whole point of this long winded
tale, there are health practices out
there that can restore function to old
and worn joints, and greatly improve
body function overall. There is knowledge
out there that can be applied to those
who’ve been told not to hold hope
for their joints. If so much of my OJS
can be reversed as dramatically as it
was in just a few minutes of work we
need to bring this knowledge to the West
teach it widely to gifted students and
then not sue the folks who through pain,
restore our abilities and functions.

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